Youth smoking predictors in South Asia
Mishu MP, et al. The predictors of cigarette smoking, smokeless tobacco consumption and use of both forms in adolescents in South Asia: a secondary analysis of the Global Youth Tobacco Surveys (GYTS). Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 6 October 2020. ntaa202, https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaa202“The associations between tobacco use and pro-tobacco factors were strong but the associations with anti-tobacco factors lacked strength and consistency in this study population.” Note that “Shopkeepers’ refusal to sell cigarettes protected adolescents from smoking (RRR 0.47, 95%CI 0.36-0.63) and ST use (RRR 0.65, 95%CI 0.45-0.95). However, exposure to anti-tobacco mass media messages was not protective for any form of tobacco use. Adolescents taught at school about harmful effects of tobacco were less likely to use ST; no evidence of this association was observed for smoking.”
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Stephen Hamann
